Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
BANGER · Action · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.06/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 16,368
- Critics
- 82 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.7h
- To 100%
- 182.7h 18.8x the story
- Finish
- 29% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 68
Price and sales
- Sales
- 112 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 March 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 151 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
30% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 112 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Galactic Civilizations IV ($39.99, scores 21) and AI War 2 ($19.99, scores 66), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $63.60. It costs $19.99.
More about Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 11 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 1 of the 487 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 494 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.7 hours. Doing everything runs 183, 19 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
One of the longest standing Solid space RTS games out there. Loads of mods for star wars, halo, star trek and more.... why ever buy another game? :P
1 more review, not recommended
I do not understand why this needs a launcher with 1 option for "I seriously want to play Sins of a Solar Empire" and 7 option for "buy a different game from our company". (0hrs in steam, however i played it 10 years ago)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB Video Card w/Pixel Shader 3.0 Support (Radeon X1650 / GeForce, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204880/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.